responders pulled bloodied passengers from the wreckage. at least six people were killed more than 200 were injured. eight are still listed in critical condition. a team from the national transportation safety board is on the scene right now. the train s so-called black box recorder has been recovered and is being analyzed. amtrak suspended service between philadelphia and new york because of the accident. that has left some passengers scrambling to find alternate transportation. president obama spoke with philadelphia s mayor this morning. he also says the nation s thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families. in a statement the president said, this is a tragedy that touches us all. as we work to determine exactly what happened i commend the fire police and medical personnel working tirelessly and professionally to save lives. the president adds philadelphia is known as the city of brotherly love a city of neighborhoods and neighbors, and that spirit of loving kindnes
crime scene to get the forensics going and to find out what happened and what led to this horrific crash. that kind of goes together on two fronts wolf. one you already talked about, the black back. that has been recovered, being analyzed at their operations head quarters in delaware. that s going to provide information like speed, brake application, throttle application, the kind of things you can get from a black box. they say that is going to be very important that they may have some information for us later today. the other part of this investigation is they re going to be mobilizing their teams, teams looking at the tracks the signals, teams looking at as they describe it kind of ntsb speak, wolf the human performance, as well as mechanical conditions of the trains and the tracks. those teams are really just starting to mobilize, and they re getting all of that task under way with the big question still out there and we re waiting for an update wolf you re waiting to hear it as we
in the investigation and how and exactly what happened. why i say that my colleague rene marsh has good information from investigators that they are seriously in a preliminary sense, looking into the factor of speed and the role speed could have played in this crash. trains along the northeast corridor can go in excess of 100 miles per hour that s absolutely aloud, but when they re in a res dengal area or going around some of the curves they are required to reduce their speed. we re told the speed limit around this area is about 50 miles an hour. that should be an easy bit of information to come forward. that s one of the easy things to come from that black box that s being that s being analyzed right now. that is something that we hear from the ntsb the information in that black box, that could be readily available relatively soon and that could be a key factor at least preliminary that is one of their big focuses is right now. wolf that s happening here on the ground and the black
ever since he was a congressman and before that when he was a staffer. this is a guy with tremendous knowledge of the problem and that was the focus of his conversation with loretta. now, if all things remain constant the vote from the republican will either tie the vote or break the tie. in the event of the tie vice president joe biden cast the tie breaker. we are learning tonight that the co pilot who deliberately crashed the germanwings passenger jet into the french alps repeatedly increased speed as he plunged the aircraft towards the mountain. that is the headline from the black box recorder recovered yesterday. fast and furious, the reaction to president obama s nuclear deal before the deal with iran. we will discuss it all with the panel after the break.
antigang anticrime movement ever since he was a congressman and before that when he was a staffer. this is a guy with tremendous knowledge of the problem and that was the focus of his conversation with loretta. now, if all things remain constant the vote from the republican will either tie the vote or break the tie. in the event of the tie vice president joe biden cast the tie breaker. we are learning tonight that the co pilot who deliberately crashed the germanwings passenger jet into the french alps repeatedly increased speed as he plunged the aircraft towards the mountain. that is the headline from the black box recorder recovered yesterday. fast and furious, the reaction to president obama s nuclear deal before the deal with iran. we will discuss it all with the panel after the break.